Re: awful kconfig help texts.

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 07:07:41PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:16:00AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > 
> > PWM Support (PWM) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?
> > 
> > CONFIG_PWM:
> > 
> > This enables PWM support through the generic PWM framework.
> > 
> > 
> > Well that's.. enlightening.
> 
> Oh, there's one more enlightening sentence in the help:
> 
> "You only need to enable this, if you also want to enable one or more of
> the PWM drivers below."

Then shouldn't this not have a prompt and just be selected by those
PWM drivers below?


> 
> Got it? :-)
> 
> > I'm picking on PWM here, but this isn't an
> > isolated case.  Every merge window we see a slew of new options with useless
> > help texts. They may as well be non-existent. (Actually in some cases, they are).
> > 
> > If someone has to read the code to find out what the driver is, your help text probably sucks.
> > 
> > 
> > (I'll leave "why does this option even show up on x86" as a separate rant)

/me is looking forward to this rant ;-)

-- Steve

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